Synonyms for quibbling
| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : kwib-ling |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈkwɪb lɪŋ |
Top 10 synonyms for quibbling
Définition of quibbling
Origin :- 1610s, "a pun, a play on words," probably a diminutive of obsolete quib "evasion of point at issue," based on an overuse of Latin quibus? in legal jargon, which supposedly gave it the association with trivial argument. Meaning "equivocation, evasion of the point" is attested from 1660s.
- adj carping
- adj trifling
- Washington probably had no sympathy with the quibbling of Congress.
- Extract from : « Washington and his Comrades in Arms » by George Wrong
- I need only repeat, this is no time for personal gain and quibbling.
- Extract from : « Medal of Honor » by Dallas McCord Reynolds
- This is not a quibbling of words, but a radical distinction.
- Extract from : « The Jessica Letters: An Editor's Romance » by Paul Elmer More
- It is easy to say that this is quibbling, but in reality is it so?
- Extract from : « Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 63, No. 389, March 1848 » by Various
- Mr. Christian's wit, in general, seemed to him a poor kind of quibbling.
- Extract from : « Felix Holt, The Radical » by George Eliot
- Where he might have appeared a martyr, he chose to stand as a quibbling casuist.
- Extract from : « A History of England » by Charles Oman
- I set it down as a sign of the state to which I had come, that I was convinced by my own quibbling.
- Extract from : « Sir Quixote of the Moors » by John Buchan
- To have his place in life fixed by his ability in quibbling seemed to him hideous.
- Extract from : « Marching Men » by Sherwood Anderson
- She had found time for deliberation while quibbling, and now her mind was made up.
- Extract from : « The Gray Phantom » by Herman Landon
- Bates considered for a moment and then nodded; it was no morning for quibbling.
- Extract from : « In And Out » by Edgar Franklin
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